IF ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY WERE THE SAME RELIGION THIS WOULD BE A MASSIVE SHOCK TO MOST PEOPLE. Beheadings Are Not Part Of Being A Christian Who Is Following In The Footsteps Of Jesus Christ, Whereas There Is Nothing Wrong With Murdering People When It Comes To Following In The Footsteps of Muhammad. Really the ideas that Islam could ever be considered to be on a par with Christianity is bizarre.

Should Islam and Christianity be considered the same religion?

My history professor thinks that they are really the same religion in that they are so similar to be variants of each other..

Happy Riches Answered requested by anonymous

Your history professor says that Islam and Christianity are similar enough to be variants of the same religion. Your history professor screams out why I have a very poor view of historians and why I am an independent thinker—not a doctrinaire or a product of indoctrination.

People who think for themselves seek to find absolutes. Death is an absolute. Not possessing knowledge prior to being born is a given as far as I am concerned—especially in my own case. Suffering is an absolute, because everybody I have met has suffered; not to mention the many people who have written about suffering and the many videos and pictures I have seen of people suffering.

Three absolutes testify to what this life is about.

1. Non-existence before birth.
2. Suffering in this world from the time people are born until the time they die.
3. Death, the cessation of existence as a biological being.

Religion—that is, true religion—is the quest for the truth concerning the ideal life.
Life that is temporal is not really life, because life should be eternal—life is not death.
Logically, the truth is the way that enables us to obtain eternal life.

Christianity is based upon the resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ. Before, He died, the Lord of Life in human form disseminated some of His wisdom. Jesus said that this life on Earth is of no eternal value since it is governed by death. However, if we love one another, even our enemies, we will be able to enter eternal life. Eternal life is guaranteed to those who walk in the way of Jesus, seek to do the will of the Father, and lay their lives down so that people might glorify God, because of their actions.

True followers of Lord Jesus Christ recognize that being born to die and having to suffer is an unjust and futile existence, therefore they seek the truth about life. This conforms to the true definition of religion. False definitions incorporate violations of The Only Words Written By The Finger Of God.

Islam is based on the teachings of Muhammad. Just because Muhammad claimed that Lord Jesus Christ was the Messiah, this does not make it an offshoot of true Christianity.

• They have taken their scholars and monks as lords besides Allah, and [also] the Messiah, the son of Mary. And they were not commanded except to worship one God; there is no deity except Him. Exalted is He above whatever they associate with Him. (Surah At-Tawbah [9:31])

More to the point, that the Quran states Jesus is the Messiah—Savior of mankind—this is not what is taught in the mosques. What is taught in the mosques is death to all non-Muslims. This is not just rhetoric but is being carried out today. Whereas, the central tenet of true Christianity is to love your enemies as well as your neighbor. This is not the false teachings of established denominations mistaken for true Christianity—Calvin, for instance, was responsible for the murder of a number of people.

In 5 years as magistrate of the Geneva “church-city-state,” Calvin oversaw 58 death sentences and the exile of 76 people. He wasn't the sole decision-maker in those cases, but personal correspondence and city council records betray his extraordinary influence. When Jacques Gruet, a theologian with differing views, placed a letter in Calvin’s pulpit calling him a hypocrite, he was arrested, tortured for a month and beheaded on July 26, 1547. Gruet's own theological book was later found and burned along with his house while his wife was thrown out into the street to watch.—John Calvin Killed Rival Theologians: Bad Bible Interpretation Justified It

One of the identifying marks of those who belong to the Devil (Satan) is the fact that they condone murder.

• You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. (John 8:44)

Muhammad was a murderer.

There were three Jewish tribes living in and around Yathrib, the Banu Qainuqa’, the Ban Nadir and the Banu Quraiza. Once Muhammad realized that they are not going to accept him as their new prophet, he turned against them. —Muhammad a Mass Murderer

Sam Shamoun analyses Muslim dawagandist Jalal Abualrub defense of Muhammad’s bewitchment and control by Satan, which is something that Lord Jesus Christ never succumbed. For we read in the book of Matthew:

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written,‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”
    Then the devil took him to the holy city, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will give his angels charge of you,’ and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”
    Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’” Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them; and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Begone, Satan! for it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God
and him only shall you serve.’”
    Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him. (Matthew 4:1–11)

Muhammad and Black Magic

Muslim dawagandist Jalal Abualrub produced a pdf file (*) for his debate with David Wood in order to defend his prophet from the charges leveled by Wood and others (including myself). 

In this rebuttal we will address Jalal’s defense of his prophet’s bewitchment and control by Satan. 

Jalal writes concerning Muhammad falling under the control of black magic:
11) David Wood wrote: ‘Muhammad fell victim to black magic.’

1. There is no black or green magic. The same hadith quoted here states Prophet Muhammad was cured from the effect of magic: Madinah’s Jews did magic against Muhammad (Bukhari and Muslim), who suffered in the same way Prophet Moses suffered when, {Their ropes and their sticks, by their magic, appeared to him [Musa (Moses)] as though they moved fast} (20:66).
2. The Quran and Sunna used the same words, ‘Yukhayyalu Ilaihi’, to describe both cases, Muhammad’s and Moses’, where one would think he did or saw something which he did not do or see. Absolutely no Ayah orHadeeth said the Prophet was saying the Quran under the influence of magic or that his religion was affected, or that he started being delirious. These are all false accusations.
3. Whatever Mr. Wood may say about Muhammad also applies to Moses, unless he likes the Hadeeth only and dismisses the Ayah. (Is Muhammad a Prophet?, p. 10) —Reexamining Satan’s Influence and Control over Muhammad

Talk about being desperate! In the first place, Jalal is splitting hairs here, since whether one wants to call it black magic or simply magic, the point still stands that Muhammad was affected by it. 

Furthermore, the reason why Wood and others call this "black" magic is to denote the fact that this kind of magic (in fact all of it) is evil since God doesn’t approve of it. 

Moreover, Wood didn’t invent this term to describe what happened to Muhammad. Jalal can blame his fellow Muslims for translating the Arabic as black magic: 

And from the evil of the envier when he envieth) this refers to Labid Ibn al-A'sam, the Jew, who was envious of the Prophet (pbuh) and used BLACK MAGIC to separate him from 'A'ishah'. (Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs, Q. 113:5; source; bold and capital emphasis ours) 

(Of the jinn and of mankind) He says: Satan whispers in the hearts of the jinn just as he whispers in the hearts of mankind. The last two surahs were revealed about Labid Ibn al-A'sam, the Jew, who used black magic on the Prophet (pbuh) and when the Prophet (pbuh) read these two surahs on Labid's BLACK MAGIC, Allah relieved him from it and it was as if he was untied from his fetters'. (Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs, Q. 114:6; source: bold and capital emphasis ours) 

Thus, Jalal must contend with the fact that Muhammad came under the control of a Jewish magician. 

This leads us to the problem with Muhammad being affected by sorcery. The Holy Bible says that God’s true servants (including his emissaries) cannot come under the control of Satan such as sorcery or black magic since Yahweh protects them: 

"There is no sorcery against Jacob, no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!’" Numbers 23:23
"The seventy-two returned with joy and said, ‘Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.’ He replied, ‘I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.’" Luke 10:17-20 

This in itself sufficiently proves that Muhammad wasn’t a prophet of the true God and exposes the lie of the Quran that Moses was affected by the magic of the Egyptian sorcerers.

The problem with history and what we see today is that there are different views based upon people’s opinions. Truth has a habit of being consistent and not wavering. The truth is clear. Islam is not Christianity. Neither are all organizations that claim to be Christian teaching the truth about following Jesus, just because they interpret what the Bible means.

Muhammad interprets the Bible also. From what is written in the Bible, and he is an antichrist, as he denies the Son as having been raised from the dead (1 John 2:23).

The Bible states that if people do not speak according to the Law and the Testimony (Isaiah 8:20), it is because they have not light in them.

The Ten Commandments Need To Be Understood If You Are To Know The Truth